BOSTON: A federal judge on Monday blocked key parts of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort to reshape US vaccine policy, including a move to reduce the number of shots routinely recommended for children, and revamp a federal advisory committee on inoculations. US District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston sided with the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups, which said health regulators had acted unlawfully to carry out Kennedy’s agenda of upending immunization policies and warned the changes will reduce vaccination rates and harm public health.

Judge Brian Murphy sided with the American Academy of Pediatrics and blocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s effort to reshape U.S. vaccine policy.

The move temporarily undoes significant damage Kennedy has done.